Stella A Berger, Jens C Nejstgaard and the AQUACOSM CONSORTIUM Poster ID 243, Session 024, ASLO 2017, Aquatic Science Meeting, Mountains to the Sea, Feb 26 – Mar 3, 2017, Honolulu, Hawai`i AQUACOSM – OFFERS WORLD-WIDE ACCESS TO FRESHWATER AND MARINE MESOCOSM FACILITIES IN EUROPE Stella A Berger, Jens C Nejstgaard and the AQUACOSM CONSORTIUM TRANSNATIONAL ACCESS (TA) - PLEASE JOIN US! AQUACOSM funding is available to scientists world-wide to undertake short visits to state-of-the-art aquatic mesocosm facilities and to utilize the infrastructure all over Europe at one of the partner institutions for the purposes of their research. WHAT IS AQUACOSM AQUACOSM is a “Network of Leading European AQUAtic MesoCOSM Facilities Connecting Mountains to Oceans from the Arctic to the Mediterranean” that will: WHAT WE OFFER 11, 500 transnational access (TA) days for 340 users 19 mesocosm facility systems at 36 sites Large geographic range from Arctic to Mediterranean Unique insfrastructures in ponds lakes, rivers estuaries, coastal and open ocean Provide the first inter-national integration of scattered know-how between freshwater and marine experimental research infrastructures to provide unified state-of-the-art mesocosm based science Promote ground-breaking developments in mesocosm technology, instrumentation and data processing Train next-generation and experienced scientists conducting research on mesocosm infrastructures Conduct coordinated international experiments at several facilities across gradients from freshwater to estuarine and marine sites, as well as along climate gradients from mountains to ocean, from the Mediterranean to the Arctic. PROCEDURES Visit AQUACOSM website: www.aquacosm.eu Contact the facility provider Apply online for TA to one of AQUACOSMS’ mesocosm facility Enjoy reseach in expert teams CONTACT Stella A Berger TA Coordination Berger@igb-berlin.de Jens C Nejstgaard Project Coordinator Nejstgaard@igb-berlin.de Info: www.aquacosm.eu AQUACOSM is funded by the European Commission EU H2020-INFRAIA-project No 731065